S.E.A. Focus 2024

Be Takerng Pattanopas has long been preoccupied with death, but his life engagement with Buddhist beliefs of impermanence became tangible in recent years when faced with his own mortality.   Being diagnosed with benign, but life-threatening  tumours in  his endocrine system, the artist  intellectualised this experience per his spiritual practice, sought to visualise the interior of his body, and transposed it into several series of his unique sculptures.   These works possess a remarkable sense of microscopic views of human internal organs, fragile and bristling, and a realism was to be curiously affirmed by medical experts. This method proved transitional from early works that explored the human body as a concave space, influenced by the ethereal lighting of Buddha sculptures in Thai temples to render perceptions of impermanence, to an increased use of visual analogies for bodily organs and complex metaphors of relations between  life and death.  Regarding both, references to the cosmos have become pronounced: the insight that all is temporal, changeable, and ends as nothing. At S.E.A. Focus Pattanopas is showcasing his most recent works titled Übermensch with Attitude, along with excerpts from his celebrated Mortalverse AR..